Broadcasting & Cable News

Battin Leaving WarnerMedia for Post at Delta Air Lines

October 27, 2019

Molly Battin, chief corporate marketing and brand strategy officer at AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit, is leaving the company to become VP of marketing at Delta Air Lines, effective Nov. 11. Battin, who joined Turner in 2000, was appointed to her current post in June. The Turner brand became part of ...

Pew: Newsroom Staff Disproportionately in NY, LA & D.C.

October 27, 2019

There may be something to that coast-centric journalistic bias alleged by conservatives, at least when it comes to where journalists live. According to a new Pew Research study, 22% of newsroom employees* live in New York, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C., compared to 13% of all U.S. workers who ...

FCC: LPTVs Have No Satellite Carriage Rights

October 27, 2019

The FCC's Media Bureau says, flatly, that LPTVs have no must-carry rights to satellite TV carriage. Full power TVs have limited must-carry rights--if a satellite carrier carries any station subject to the compulsory license, it must carry all. Some LPTVs have must-carry rights on cable. But no ...

Errant Missile Alert Prevention Bill Reintroduced

October 27, 2019

Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and John Thune (R-S.D.) have reintroduced the Reliable Emergency Alert Distribution Improvement (READI) Act, which is meant to improve the emergency alert system and prevent its accidental triggering. Among other things, the bill would allow broadcasters to repeat ...

Markey Warns FCC Against Giving OTT Effective Competition Status

October 27, 2019

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has stopped just short of asking the FCC to deny Charter's request that the FCC declare that AT&T's AT&T TV Now over-the-top video service qualifies as effective competition to Charter cable systems in Massachusetts, freeing those systems from basic rate regulation. ...

RME Announces Latest Program Approved for AVIXA CTS Renewal Units

October 27, 2019

Fort Lauderdale, FL, October 22, 2019 – RME, premier German manufacturer of audio interfaces and official AVIXA CTS® Renewal Unit (RU) provider, has added a second course available for AVIXA CTS® RU credit, titled “Technology for Reliable Transport Over Unreliable Networks – IP Audio in Broadcast ...

Amazon Renews ‘Modern Love’ Series

October 27, 2019

Amazon Prime has ordered a second season of romantic anthology series Modern Love. The show, inspired by the New York Times column, debuted Oct. 18. “The series explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the column’s most beloved stories ...

FCC Votes to Modify USF Deployment Testing

October 27, 2019

The FCC has voted unanimously to adopt modified methods for verifying that carriers receiving Universal Service Fund high-cost support for broadband deployment (primarily in rural areas) are supplying the speed and quality of service they have promised when seeking the USF subsidies. The commission ...

Primetime Ratings: ‘Thursday Night Football’ Down on Fox

October 27, 2019

Fox got top spot in Thursday prime ratings, Thursday Night Football giving the net a 2.7 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 12 share. That easily topped the 0.9/4 that ABC averaged. Redskins versus Vikings took up Fox’s prime. The rating fell 10% from last week’s game, Chiefs ...